1. Maybe I should have been in the oil business.

2. To innovate, just improve.

3. Probably, I am more patient than you.

4. Stop making it complicated.

5. “I’m sorry to be so blunt, gentlemen, but my experience is that, generally speaking, if a man does not arrive at a meaning for his pains—and if that meaning does not evolve into a mandate for his future—then he is very likely to allow his sufferings to crush him. He’ll use them as an excuse for failure, a barrier against people, and a shield against his own emotions.”

–Stephen Mansfield, Mansfield’s Book Of Manly Men

1. Allergies are weird. Especially, peanut.

2. Looking for a job? Persistence wins at everything.

3. If you refuse to quit, the end is decided. You have already won.

4. Travel, just to travel.

5. “When I think about my child-self, my little girl memories, all that little girl wanted to be was a storyteller, a poet, a person who gathers and arranges words like some people gather and arrange flowers. Words are the breakdown through which I see all of life, instead of molecules or notes or chords or colors. Words in even black and white snakes, back and forth across the page, the portals through which a little girl found a big world, and through which, now, a grown-up girl is trying to pass.”

–Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines